Boko Haram pays terrorists 35 euro to kill in Nigeria

(AGI) Abuja -A member of Boko Haram said he paid 35 euro to each of the suspects behind the recent bombing of churches in Nigeria. An alleged kingpin of Islamist terror group Boko Haram, Magaji Bala, who was arrested by the police in Nigeria on suspicion of being one of the masterminds of the June 10 bomb attacks on some churches in the town of Biu, in the north-eastern state of Borno, said 35 euro is enough in Nigeria to arm a 'terrorist' and have them kill a soldier, a member of the moderate Muslim clergy, a barkeeper selling alcohol or a Christian faithful going to church on a Sunday. "I gave each of the six men who carried out the attacks on the churches in Biu 35 euro", Bala said, according to the country's most authoritative newspaper, The Guardian. Magaji's statement was confirmed by one of the six suspects behind the attacks, Ibrahim Mohammed Babangida, who was arrested alongside his five alleged accomplices. " Magaji Bala came to me at my meat shop and asked me to assist him in executing the activities of our association at an undisclosed church. He gave me 7,500 naira cash (little over 35 euro)", Babangida said from jail. Over 80% of Nigeria's about 160 million population lives on less than 1.5 euro a day. . .